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Isolation: Your Best Investment for Reliability In 1999 the Science department at NASA conducted a study on lightning, ground voltage, and structural impact. A building in North Carolina, located within 45 meters of a 42-meter water tower was used in the study. Within a 5-month period, five separate lightn...

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The Market for Energy Efficiency Retrofits in Commercial Buildings Will Nearly Double by 2020, Reach The global market for energy efficiency retrofits in commercial buildings will expand from $80.3 billion in 2011 to $151.8 billion by 2020, forecasts

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DTE Energy - BioGreen Gas BioGreenGas, a new, voluntary residential program which supports the local development of renewable natural gas by using the methane that arises naturally from landfills. Weâre leading the US with this program. BioGreenGas benefits the environment in two ways: it prevents harmful methane from esca…

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US Foods uses the sun for more than produce Food giant US Foods, which has locations across the US, has just signed a deal to put solar on another of its facilities. This time at its Albuquerque, N.M., distribution center. The company already has solar on four of its warehouses across the country with more to come.

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Scientists are also identifying and breeding animals that naturally produce less methane, while farmers are changing systems to reduce emissions

Updated at 3:06 pm on 4 July 2012

A dairy industry scientist says farmers may have access to some new solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock within five years.

The Government has confirmed that emissions from farm animals will be excluded from the Emissions Trading Scheme until at least 2015.

One of the reasons for that is the lack of practical and affordable measures available to farmers for reducing them.

At present, nitrification inhibitors that can be applied to pasture to reduce nitrous oxide emissions, but there are few other solutions.

The agricultural sector is spending millions of dollars a year on research to find solutions for the main agricultural greenhouse gas, methane, emitted by livestock.

Most of that research is under the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium.

Industry body Dairy NZ is among the contributors. Its strategy and investment leader for sustainability, Dr Rick Pridmore, says one of the methane reduction treatments that could be available within five years is a vaccine.

Dr Pridmore says scientists are also working on a drench that would target the methane-producing microbes in livestock.

He says the dairy industry is making progress with the animal breeding approach; breeding cows that effectively reduce gas emissions by producing more milk with the same amount of feed.

Scientists are also identifying and breeding animals that naturally produce less methane, while farmers are changing systems to reduce emissions.

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CMU Tops In Energy Savings, Utility Rebates Show - CBS Detroit Central Michigan University has become a leader in energy efficiency, at least if the volume of its efficiency rebates from Consumers Energy is any indication.

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DTE To Invest $500 Million In Michigan's Wind Infrastructure DTE Energy is boosting its renewable energy efforts with a $500 million investment in wind power infrastructure in Michigan's "thumb." The state's largest utility plans to install 137 wind turbines at four wind farms in Huron and Sanilac counties.